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Organic gardening is not as easy as some may think! There is a lot more to it than just watering some seeds or digging around in the dirt. It is truly an art form. It has requires many techniques and products that require a green thumb as well as some hard work to achieve a great organic garden. Here are some tips to help you with your own:

Compost

Compost plants at the end of the season to strengthen the next season’s crop. The plants you have been harvesting all season are still full of rich nutrients that will be highly beneficial to your compost stock. The key is not to waste any part of the plant that is available.

When organic gardening, it is very easy to make your compost for your garden. Not only will it give you something to do with all of your table scraps or even pet waste, it will make your garden thrive! Compost all of your waste organic material and your garden will thrive in the spring.

Try to get a good composition of healthy soil in your garden. Healthy soil is generally more resistant to pests and other negative influences. How can you tell when a soil is “healthy?” Generally a healthy soil contains a good combination of earth worms, helpful microbes, and a good deal of mulch and compost on the surface area.

Start your own compost pile. It works better and is cheaper than commercial fertilizers. Your compost pile should be located in an area that is away from direct sunlight and has good drainage. You can speed up the decomposition process by chopping the items into smaller pieces with a shovel, shredder or lawn mower.

For organic fertilizer to use around the plants in your garden and flower beds, start a compost bin made from all-organic material that would otherwise be wasted. Pitch in yard clippings, leaves, vegetable peelings, eggshells and coffee grounds, turning the contents of the bin often. In just a short time, you will have great material to mix with your soil that will provide nutrients and nourishment to your plants without added chemicals.

A great tip when running your own organic garden is to make sure you immediately fertilize your seedlings when they receive their first true leaves, which will appear as soon as the cotyledon disappears. If your seedlings are not immediately fertilized, they will die unless you are using a mix with no soil that also does not have compost.

There are many benefits to using only natural fertilizers in your organic garden. These natural fertilizers like compost and organic materials, help encourage creatures like native earthworms. Earthworms are natural tillers, they greatly improve your soil’s conditions by conditioning it, and they also help to manufacture great fertilizer for your garden.

Use only natural and organic alternatives instead of chemical fertilizers. Using chemical fertilizers will add chemicals into your plants and the soil getting into our drinking water. Using a natural compost will keep your plants chemical free and healthy. Compost is made from anything that was once alive, for example leaves, kitchen waste, and grass clippings.

Compost can do more for your organic garden than just work along the surface. When good compost is worked well into the soil, it introduces and helps feed some diverse life deep into it. This includes various types of bacteria, worms, insects and more. These organisms can help support some very vigorous plant growth in the soil.

You don’t have to be an eco-friendly person to grow an organic garden. Perhaps you’re just looking to be wallet-friendly or waistline-friendly. There are endless benefits to going organic, and the tips you’ve just read will help you out when you want to till up the dirt and grow your produce.